Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report
National Edition
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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Farmworkers Declare, We Put the Food on Your Table
Isnât It Time We Got to Share in the Bounty?
featuring
. Pablo Cruz and Heriberto Gonzalez NYS farm workers
. Rev. Richard Witt, Executive Director Rural & Migrant Ministry
. State Senator Adriano Espaillat
. NYS Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan
. Cardinal Timothy Dolan
. Kerry Kennedy, Pres., Robert Kennedy Center for Human Rights
. Jose Calderon, President, Hispanic Federation
Hey, what about the fact that those who grow the food that feeds us,
farmworkers donât get even one day a week off to rest after from their toil?
And, they donât have the right to organize and bargain collectively; nor are
there basic standards under the Sanitary Code for farmworkers living quarters;
nor do farmworkers get unemployment pay when theyâre laid off or terminated;
and theyâre not entitled to workersâ compensation if theyâre injured on the job;
nor can they receive disability benefits when they are unable to work due to
illness or injury. And, they sure donât receive overtime pay when theyâre
forced to work more than an eight hour day. Why is this? Well, in the 1930s,
farmworkers and domestic workers were left out of the New Deal due to
pressure from the descendants of slaveholders. Eighty years later,
farmworkers remain excluded for fundamental labor protections and benefits
in New York and now theyâre marching throughout NYS with the Rural and
Migrant Ministry to end this injustice and demand that the state senate and
Gov. Cuomo bring the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act to the floor for
a vote to be included in basic labor rights afforded other workers.
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